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No perks, right? Can I still buy snacks/drinks?
Is it any quicker through the airport because it's domestic?
Do I just waltz right fucking through the other end? I mean why would Edinburgh need to see my passport?
Does it fly over the big castle?

Not because of the environment (allow that) but because my ears don't deal too well with flying and something about the short flight times (I presume you don't get much pressure readjustment) destroys my ears and sinuses.

Spent the return flight from Aberdeen in absolute agony trying to cave my own head in

those EarPlanes earplug things? Cheapo Boots own brand versions are available. I finally started using them after I though my ear were going to explode on a flight to Dublin and they did actually seem to work. For long haul just pop em in from door close to cruising altitude, then take em out and stick back in when you start to descend later on. Domestic I guess you just leave them in the whole time.

The train is such a plesant way to travel. Get on loaded with sandwiches scotch eggs and polish lager and let Jerusalem wash past your window.

There's such an inherent romance to the train. Flying isn't what it was. Once, we entered the clouds like pioneers riding on the coat tails of a brighter tomorrow. Now we are crowded in to cans with engines like a load of horses off to the glue factory

for in-flight announcements, as they constantly try to make you buy stuff. When I flew back from Tel Aviv one guy actually shouted 'Shut the fuck up' as the cabin crew told us about their fantastic perfume range once again. Don't think even Ryanair are that bad for stuff like that.